Security News

RSA SecurID Access innovations support organizations struggling to protect their workforces
2020-08-12 02:00

RSA announced the availability of RSA SecurID Access offerings that are designed to support organizations struggling to protect and optimize their workforces in this challenging environment. RSA SecurID Access minimizes identity risk with a unique hybrid model that now integrates all of the on-premises and cloud components into a unified solution, making it faster and easier for on-prem customers to connect to the cloud.

NewDay selects RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce to protect digital payments from fraud
2020-07-07 00:00

RSA announces that NewDay has selected and deployed RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce to deliver advanced fraud protection for digital payments and address the requirements of the EMV 3-D Secure protocol. RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce helps card issuers and payments processors prevent more than 95 percent of fraud in card-not-present e-commerce transactions and provide a frictionless authentication and shopping experience for cardholders.

RSA-250 Factored
2020-04-08 11:37

RSA-250 has been factored. This computation was performed with the Number Field Sieve algorithm, using the open-source CADO-NFS software. The total computation time was roughly 2700 core-years,...

Two Exabeam employees at RSA conference who tested positive for COVID-19 are recovering
2020-03-31 19:24

Both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending RSA in San Francisco. The two Exabeam employees who were diagnosed with coronavirus after attending the RSA tech conference, which ran from Feb. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, are on the road to recovery.

Exabeam employees at RSA tech conference in San Francisco stricken with COVID-19
2020-03-11 14:27

Both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending RSA in San Francisco. The two Exabeam employees who were diagnosed with coronavirus after attending the RSA tech conference, which ran from Feb. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, are on the road to recovery.

California tech industry gets its first big coronavirus hit: RSA Conference attendee infected, in serious condition
2020-03-10 20:36

The deadly novel coronavirus has reached California's tech sector with the news that an engineer who attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month has now tested positive for COVID-19 - and is in a serious condition. The RSA Conference is significant with roughly 40,000 attendees.

Never a Dull Moment - RSA Conference Afterthoughts
2020-03-10 17:56

After the disruption caused by the last-minute cancellation of Mobile World Congress, there were some mutterings as to whether RSA Conference 2020 would still happen. A focus topic for RSA Conference 2012, the underlying concepts continued to mature, as more organizations moved into cloud services over the coming years.

7 RSA Takeaways: 'Human Element' Meets Covid-19 Concerns
2020-03-06 18:18

Women appearing on the RSA keynote stages this year included, among others, cryptography expert and blockchain fan Tal Rabin; Katie Arrington, the Pentagon's CISO of acquisitions, discussing Huawei; Jessica Barker talking about the psychology of fear and trying to blame users; computer scientist and human factors expert Celeste Paul of the National Security Agency; coordinated vulnerability disclosure queen Katie Moussouris; and Wendy Nather of Duo Security - now part of Cisco - who sadly wasn't allowed to arrive on the opening morning's keynote stage via skateboard. RSA went ahead despite mounting concerns over the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19.

An Analyst's Observations of RSA Conference
2020-03-06 17:18

Joseph Krull, an analyst with Aite Group, recommends that vendors at RSA Conference should focus on how they integrate with the life of a CISO, rather than fixing point solutions. Why vendors should focus on what problems their solutions are solving;.

8 Takeaways: The Cryptographer's Panel at RSA 2020
2020-03-05 17:48

One of the highlights of the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is the opening keynote session that gathers together a world-class panel of cryptography experts to discuss and debate today's top cybersecurity issues. This year's panelists included the first two letters of the RSA cryptosystem - MIT professor Ronald Rivest and Weizmann Institute professor Adi Shamir; Whitfield Diffie, who helped create the pioneering Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol; Tal Rabin, an expert in cryptography and network security - including digital signatures and secure online communications; and Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University professor known for his data de-anonymization work.